How do I change my display settings/potentially use a data format that will allow me to view lat/lon coordinates without any sort of scientific notation/engineering notation?

As of right now, the data is stored as doubles. I have tried using long fixed decimal format, and this turns any value such as -111.345928... into -1.11345928e2. It would be preferable to be able to fix this as I am assigning values to variables rather than changing a display format in the Matlab GUI.

Answer 1

[Chad Greene]

You'll have to be a bit more specific about what you're trying to accomplish.

• If you want to change how many digits are displayed in the command line, just type

format bank

which will display numbers to two decimal places until you restart Matlab.

• If you want to round the data to a specified number of decimal places you can do something like

round(lon,3)

which would round longitudes to 3 decimal places.

• If you want to display the number as a string and you want to specify the number of decimal places, you can do

num2str(lon,'0.3f')